"Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (1827-1875) was an extraordinarily gifted sculptor, the greatest in 19th-century France before Rodin, and embodied the emotionally charged artistic climate of his era ... Carpeaux's wrenching representations of human forms, shown in beautiful color details and illustrations, echo his turbulent personal life, fraught with episodes of violence and fatal illness. The book covers the entire span of Carpeaux's career, and includes the masterpiece Ugolino and His Sons, newly discovered drawings, and a number of rarely seen or studied works. Previously unpublished letters between Carpeaux and his family and friends, a wealth of archival material, and the most detailed chronology of the artist's life ever published."--Yale University Press website.

This is a catalogue raisonné of Rodin's bronzes. There are 455 entries with over a thousand pictures in 2 volumes. Each work lists the inventory number, the technique and a bibliography. Information about provenance and historical context along with comparison to other works is also included. The research is meticulous and the cross-references invaluable.

"Published in conjunction with the exhibition The original copy: photography of sculpture, 1839 to today, at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (August 1-November 1, 2010)"--T.p. verso.

"Le présent volume rassemble les contributions du colloque international Histoire de l'art du X1Xe siècle (1848-1914). Bilans et perspectives qui s'est tenu à l'École du Louvre, au musée d'Orsay et à l'Institut national d'histoire de l'art à l'occasion des vingt ans du musée d'Orsay. Ces XXIes Rencontres de l'École du Louvre, organisées en dix sessions, s'intéressant à des questions transversales mais traitant aussi des différents domaines de la production artistique, ont réuni soixante-seize contributeurs, issus du monde des musées comme de celui des universités, et se sont déroulées devant quelque six cents auditeurs. Douze nationalités de chercheurs étaient représentées. Ce colloque a été l'occasion de créer, en partenariat avec l'Institut national d'histoire de l'art, un Forum des jeunes chercheurs, manifestation originale qui trouve désormais sa place dans tous les colloques organisés par l'École du Louvre. Cette programmation particulière offre la possibilité à des élèves de 3e cycle, des doctorants ou jeunes docteurs de croiser leurs premières recherches avec celles de personnes plus confirmées. Ce colloque a été l'occasion d'esquisser un bilan, ou du moins de brosser un tableau de l'évolution des études dix-neuviémistes durant ces vingt dernières années, de souligner l'émergence de thématiques, de questions et de méthodes nouvelles. Les lecteurs trouveront dans ces actes à la fois des confirmations, mais aussi des interrogations, l'ouverture de nouveaux champs, auxquels le musée d'Orsay a contribué par ses choix d'accrochage, d'expositions et de manifestations."--P. [4] of cover.

Ever since the mid-nineteenth century, when the new medium of photography was pressed into service to illustrate sculpture, photographs of sculptural objects have directed viewers as to what, in the course of ambling around a sculpture, was the single perfect moment to stop and look. What is the photograph’s place in writing the history of sculpture? How has it changed according to culture, generation, criti-cal conviction, and changes in media? Photography and Sculpture: The Art Object in Reproduction studies aspects of these questions from the perspectives of sixteen leading art historians. Their essays consider iconic photographs, archival collections, new and forgotten technologies, and conceptual challenges in photographing three-dimensional forms that have directed changing historical and stylistic attitudes about how we see, write about, and narrate histories of sculpture. Chapters on such varied topics as picturing Conceptual art, manipulating sacred images in India to be non-photographs, and framing Roman art with an iPad illustrate the latent visual and narrative powers and ever-expanding potential of these images of sculpture.

The Violence of Modernity turns to Charles Baudelaire, one of the most canonical figures of literary modernism, in order to reclaim an aesthetic legacy for ethical inquiry and historical critique. Works of modern literature are commonly theorized as symptomatic responses to the trauma of history. In a climate that tends to privilege crisis over critique, Debarati Sanyal argues that it is urgent to rethink literary experience in terms that recall its contestatory potential. Examining Baudelaire's poems afresh, she shifts the focus of critical attention toward an account of modernism as an active engagement with violence, specifically the violence of history in nineteenth-century France. Sanyal analyzes a literary current that uses the traditional hallmarks of modernism—irony, intertextuality, self-reflexivity, and formalism—to challenge the historical violence of modernity. Baudelaire and the committed ironists writing in his wake teach us how to read and resist the violence of history, and thereby to challenge the melancholy tenor of our contemporary "wound culture." In a series of provocative readings, Sanyal presents Baudelaire's poetry as an aesthetic form that contests historical violence through rhetorical strategies of complicity, counterviolence, and critique. The book develops a new account of Baudelaire's significance as a modernist by dislodging him both from his traditional status as a practitioner of "art for art's sake" and from his more recent incarnation as the poet of trauma. Following her extended analysis of Baudelaire's poetry, Sanyal in later chapters considers a number of authors influenced by his strategies—including Rachilde, Virginie Despentes, Albert Camus, and Jean-Paul Sartre—to examine the relevance of their interventions for our current climate of trauma and terror. The result is a study that underscores how Baudelaire's legacy continues to energize literary engagements with the violence of modernity.